Win200K does not recognise transplanted HD

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I have transferred a hard drive from a defunct PC (running Win XP Pro) to a
new one running Win2000. The old drive had a single dynamic partition. The
drive appears in the BIOS startup screen. It does not appear as a drive in
"My computer". When I go to "Disk Management", it has the primary disk
correctly labelled as "Disk 0". The new drive is labelled "Disk 1",
"Dynamic" and "Foreign" written on the left-hand panel. It is not possible
to get this drive recognised.

How can I read the contents of this drive?
 
Robert S said:
I have transferred a hard drive from a defunct PC (running Win XP Pro) to a
new one running Win2000. The old drive had a single dynamic partition. The
drive appears in the BIOS startup screen. It does not appear as a drive in
"My computer". When I go to "Disk Management", it has the primary disk
correctly labelled as "Disk 0". The new drive is labelled "Disk 1",
"Dynamic" and "Foreign" written on the left-hand panel. It is not possible
to get this drive recognised.

How can I read the contents of this drive?
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You can try this:
- Disconnect your Win2000 disk.
- Make the disk with the dynamic partition your primary master disk.
- Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com).
- Run ptedit.exe
(ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/tools/pq/utilities/).
- Change the partition type from what it is to the type used for
NTFS partitions. You can easily look up the various type numbers
while in ptedit.
- See if Win2000 will now recognise the partition.

Note that this change is completely reversible as long as you do
not change anything else under ptedit and as long as you make
a careful note of what you changed and what the original number was.
 
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